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Making calendaring & contact management work at home
By Jeff Zbar | December 1, 2007
I was looking at my Microsoft Outlook calendar recently, and I noticed a funny thing: As many events in there were for family life as were for my writing business. “Interview with XX Company” was followed by “Pick up Zoe.” “Client Meeting” was on the same day as “Zack hockey.” It got me to thinking about how our business and personal lives are so intertwined today, and organization reaches into so many facets of what we do. I even include my wife’s and kids’ events on Outlook. The next logical move would be to set up a Google Calendar for the family, so we all can access it via our respective Internet access devices (like my wife’s cell phone, or my kids’ laptop computers). Some might say it’s a sad commentary on modern life — how busy and tech-reliant we’ve become. But I think it’s more a function of our lives and work and technology being able to share devices and solutions to reach a common goal — like not missing a meeting, or worse, forgetting to fetch a kid from an extracurricular. THAT is balance in the modern home office — and home…
Topics: Family Life, Home Organization, Personal Organizing |